The Worship of Gods

40 Saying to Aaron: Make us Gods (elohim) to go before us. As for this Mosheh who brought us up out of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.

The Gods of Egypt

Exodus 12:1-12

1 And Yahweh said to Mosheh and Aaron in the land of Egypt:

2 This Moon shall be your beginning of Moons; it shall be the First Moon of the Year to you.

3 Speak to all the congregation of Israyl, saying; On the Tenth Day of this First Moon, each man is to take a lamb for his family, one for each household.

4 If any household is too small for the lamb, let him and his brother next to his house share it, having taken into account the number of people there are. You are to determine the amount of lamb needed in accordance with what each person will eat.

5 Your lamb must be without blemish, a male of the first year. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats:

6 And you must keep it until the Fourteenth Day of the same Moon: then the whole multitude of the congregation of Israyl shall kill it between the two evenings.

7 And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses, in which they eat the lamb.

8 Then they must eat the meat in that night; roasted in fire. With unleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.

9 Do not eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water; only roasted in fire, its head with its legs, and with its entrails.

10 And you must let nothing of it remain until morning; but that which remains of it until morning, you must burn with fire.

11 And in this way you shall eat it: with a belt on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is Yahweh’s Passover,

12 Because, on account that the Egyptians sinned against Me, transgressing My Laws, this night all the firstborn in the land of Egypt will be struck down; both men and animals, and Judgment will be executed on all the Gods; elohim, of Egypt. I am Yahweh.

These same Coptic Catholics were calling themselves Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, and Herodians in the days of Yahshua and the Disciples. Stephen was speaking to the chief priests of the Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, and Herodians who owned and operated the Roman army that stood on their fathers’ part, as shown in Daniyl 11:31.

Compare:

Acts 7:37-43

37 This is that Mosheh, who said to the children of Israyl: Yahweh your Father will raise up for you a Prophet like me, from your brothers. Him you will hear.

38 This is he, who was among the called out ones in the wilderness with the malak who spoke to him on Mount Sinai; and with our fathers, who received the doctrine of life to give to us,

39 Whom our fathers would not obey, but they rejected him. So in their hearts they turned back to Egypt,

40 Saying to Aaron: Make us Gods (elohim) to go before us. As for this Mosheh who brought us up out of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.

41 And they made an image of a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice to the God (el), and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.

42 Then Yahweh turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven, just as it is written in The Book of Yahweh: Was it to Me you brought sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israyl?

43 No! But you have lifted up the idolatrous temple of Molech; your God (el), and Chiun your star-God (el); Saturn, the star of your God (el) which you made for yourselves. And I will carry you away beyond Babylon.

In verse 42, notice, the host of heaven is shown to be the demons that followed Satan, and shown in:

Revelation 9:20-21

20 And the rest of the men who were not killed by these plagues, still did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and Gods (elohim, teraphim) of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk;

21 Neither did they repent of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.